I'm not familiar with vampires or should I say books about them. However anyone can enjoy this delightful book about Desidra the vampire who helps out the USA in WW II. The story starts in Seattle and she serves as a code breaker in Anchorage, AK and "travels" to Japan. There is romance and intrigue. In the end you will have to decide who is more thirsty for blood and territory, humans at war or vampires?
The plot is good, the descriptions and dialogue are believable and the historical and cultural facts seem well researched. Brian Herbert is best known for his Dune prequels, not vampire novels, but he and Marie Landis produced this most enjoyable little story and I think it is a jewel.

Este libro me impresionó, supuse que el internarme nuevamente en el mundo de DUNE sería una gran experiencia, pero "Dune. La Casa Atreides" me llevó de la mano a todo el fantástico mundo de intrigas, aventuras, filosofía, prejuicios, poder y traición creado por Frank Herbert. Para cualquier persona que hubiese leido la saga original de DUNE este libro le encantará, lo sorprenderá en reiteradas oportunidades, no podrá dejar de leerlo, para cuando se de cuenta estará deseando que el siguiente libro "Dune. La Casa Harkonnen" este en sus manos para continuar. Lo recomiendo, sufrirá y se alegrará con las aventuras y desventuras de un joven Leto Atreides, se sorprenderá con un niño Duncan Idaho y reavirá en su imaginanción las imágenes que lo hicieron soñar en la saga original de DUNE.

The Prussian Officer is one of the most moving and striking stories I have ever read. The imagery and emotion that the reader expiriences will not soon be forgotten.

Brian Herbert's amazing characters, from all different fields of reality and imagination, bring to life the one true doubt that has plagued and been so wonderfully covered up by humanity: religion.
It also deals with the sexual part of our human nature, examining enough to make you think for a moment where your own thoughts are coming from: your head, or the page.
From the necrophilic, Harley Gutan, to the Grand Exalted Rooster himself, Evander McMurtrey, Herbert enlists you in a race to visit Tananius-Ofo, the home planet of God.
And maybe, if you're lucky, you'll even hear a yapping voice screaming, "O Chubby Mother, Let me rubba your belly...."

It has been many years since I read Sudanna, Sudanna, and seeing no review here saddens me because I found this to be a most enjoyable book to read. Brian Herbert obviously is not the great author his famous father Frank Herbert (Dune) was, but he is nonetheless a very good one, and this book lead me to read quite a few of his books. Finding any of Brian Herbert's books in store is a real challenge, so one should take advantage of book finding services. Sudanna, Sudanna is full of wit and contains some of the funniest scenes I've ever read in Sci-Fi. I highly recommend it.

I thought the war of the worlds was an ok book the thing's i didnt like about it was that in alot of parts in the book it dragged on and on like they just kept on running and running from the martians from mar's.Thing's i enjoyed about the book were it was cool about them breathing fire on the people at where the cylinder first fell.I also liked the times when the martians started destroying everything but it dragged on alot.
Ialso enjoyed when the army came and tried to shoot down the martians but nothing happend.

I am an Old Time Radio fanatic. I love War or the Worlds and this book is the definte history of this imfamous radio broadcast. The Mercury Theater on The Air was such a great crew and this book tells a great deal about them.

War of the Worlds enthusiasts continue to love, emulate and draw new stories from this, the original outer-space invasion novel. The story has been filmed twice--once as a television series and once as a 1950's sci-fi epic--but it's been copied and re-told many times in other films, INDEPENDENCE DAY included. What would Hollywood do without this original, one-of-a-kind horror story? This new book has everything, including a CD and excerpts from a recorded discussion between H.G. Wells and Orson Welles, as well as the original 1938 Welles broadcast, and two press conferences with Welles. What's missing is the fascinating story of how and why Wells wrote this story (it's truly a horror tale--our hero has to sit in an abandoned house for days, listening to the Martians eating live humans, for instance), which contains many of the same suspenseful elements you'll find in other classics that will not die--such as FRANKENSTEIN, DRACULA and SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES. When I traveled to England to attend a meeting of the H.G. Wells Society in 1998 (the centenary of War of the Worlds' publication), I was treated to a walking tour of the actual Martian landing site, the sand pits of Woking. Then, we followed the same path that the Martians traversed during their campaign against the world. A small, polished pebble lifted from the sandpits sits before my writing desk, a relic of a fictitious war for which, like the recent attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, no-one was prepared. Wells was living in a time of unrest, when anarchists (terrorists?) might strike at any time at the powerful and arrogant British Empire, and the portent of war was everywhere. War of the Worlds was a wake-up call! Ray Bradbury's foreword is worth the price of the book. He is truly Wells' successor--a behavioral optimist who in every way is the kind of writer Wells tried to be. Incidentally, Bradbury once told me that he missed his chance to meet H.G. Wells when he lectured in L.A. Bradbury was a high school student and didn't have the price of admission. Besides, he told me, "I was afraid I'd die of a heart attack if I met him!" Wells dominated the first half of the 20th Century, Bradbury the second half. Both were believers in the potential and unrealized greatness of humankind. Both are worth reading. --Jim Reed, author of DAD'S TWEED COAT: SMALL WISDOMS, HIDDEN COMFORTS, UNEXPECTED JOYS

I found this odd book on someone's favorite book list ... Since that person liked a lot of other books I liked, I figured I'd give it a look. What I found was one of the most bizarre futures (600 years hence) imaginable. I couldn't figure out if Herbert was trying to make a twisted anti-consumerism Brave New World or what, but all of a sudden I realized - this is a ... good story. The premise, about a "garbage comet", was really almost incidental to the story and should not be considered a negative.

This book is not only good and witty sci. fi., it is also aparody of the American obsessiopn with consumer's society and endlesscommercials. How would you like to live in a society where great majority of people has brain implants who emit signals for example of being itchy when there is a commercial for spray to ease itching, and symptoms subside as soon as you order the spray etc.

the story of earth 400 years to the future. sidney a lowly govermental worker is picked in order to save the universe from a giant comet of garbage. a wonderful and funny look of the world of the future where economy is every thing and imortality can be achieved just by believing.

I got this cookbook when I first moved out on my own and had to learn to feed myself. The recipes range from simple to comlex; all the ones I have tried are a taste treat. The asparagus chicken has been a favorite at many a party. Even in today's calorie and health conscious world there are recipes to enjoy here. My first copy from 1986 got destroyed in a minor flood and I will be replacing this well used cookbook.

A second collection of articles and sermons by Herbert McCabe, one of the most brilliant British theologians of the 20th century. McCabe published very little while alive and so it is very exciting to see more of his writings being made available posthumously. The book again demonstrates the huge range of McCabe's thought and showcases once again his sparklingly lucid and witty prose. His article entitled "The Logic of Mysticism" is vintage McCabe, provocative, surprising and, above all, thoughtful. A must for anyone with an interest in thinking about God.

I must say that I have been waiting for this book to come out for a couple of years now, so my expectations were running pretty high.
The content of the book as far as information is very cich and interesting. No one else could have written such an accurate account of Frank Herbert's personal life like Brian Herbert has done here. He seems obsessed to the point of telling us what kind of wine they had on a certain date and with what food...sometimes a bit too much. Yes, we can all appreciate all the wonderful things Frank Herbert knew about, his extensive knowledge about many things including wine, but who cares what kind of wine he had everytime he is eating? So yes, the insider's look backfires a little but it also gives the readers all the goodies, like Frank's tempers and his obsessions, and seems not to hold back on anything. At times I didn't know if I liked the Dune creator...
What was really bad was the author talking about his writing and his career. Who the hell cares about the caracters in his novels? It rather made me feel sorry for Brian at times, he seems to be a person without an identity, always emulating his father(He signs a book just like his father did-crossing out the printed name). It just feels he went on a free ride here, I bought the book to find out about Frank Herbert, and ended up finding out as much about Brian Herbert's writing, which was very sad.

I could call this book a "Family Biography" rather than only a bio on Frank Herbert. This is no surprise coming from the pen of his son, Brian Herbert and souldn't had implied something negative, nonetheless I feel that the result was not overall satisfactory, and an important opportunity missed by Brian Herbert.

On the good side, we get to know the intimate family life of Frank Herbert and specially his relationship with his wife Beverly and his sons.In this way we discover the man but we are far from discovering much of the writer. We hardly get any insights into many of his writings (the exception is of course Dune). I was eager to know about the origins of the Pandora Cycle, the Dune Sequels or many of the great short stories, but non of that is propoerly developed and sometimes it is only barely mentioned. We even get more details about Brian Herbert's own writings!, which seems to me a lack of sensibility on the author's part.

While not the best I would expect, "Dreamer of Dune" is certainly valuable for the most familiar aspects of Herbert which would have been unavailable otherwise. Nevertheless, we won't get the full picture of one of science fiction's grandest creators and I recommend to complement this title with other valuable sources to fully understand Herbert's achievement. Some recommendations are Frank Herbert by Timothy O'Reilly (found on the web at Tim O'Reilly's Web Page), The Maker of Dune, a collection of articles by Herbert himself on various topics and the academic works by William Touponce and Daniel Levack.

When you know inside information about the life of a man who's influenced the literary community, you can't help but let that seep into your writing. Especially if you're writing a biography about this man. Add to that the fact that you're his son, and you've got a triple-whammy!

Brian Herbert (a successful author in his own right) shows us the powerful life of his legendary father, Frank Herbert, in Dreamer of Dune, the biography of Frank Herbert's life.

The story surrounds Frank Herbert from his humble beginnings in small town Washington, to his rise to the head of science fiction's most coveted awards (the Nebula and Hugo awards).

Brian Herbert takes us on an emotional rollercoaster ride as Frank and his family go from starving in Mexico, to eating caviar in Hawaii. Then we get let down again as Bev, Frank's love of his life, passes away.

Throughout the biography, Brian expertly weaves the life that would lead Frank Herbert to write his magnum opus: Dune. His newspaper days, working for senatorial candidates, ecological research and travels all helped shape the world of Dune that would emerge onto the literary world and shape the science fiction community for decades to come.

A well-written biography with some touching information on a man who may still remain and enigma to many fans. Enjoy.